TIME Magazine Gave a Crappy Review

... and I called 'em out on it!

This review of STTMP was printed in TIME's December 17, 1979 issue.

I was not the only person who howled over the reviewer's cluelessness.  See below!

I'm sure you can figure out which part of the above image is my letter of protest, which is TIME's semi-canned reply, and the printed responses to the so-called review.

'NUFF SAID!  See you on Thursday.  Thanks for joining me on this month's TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!  Don't worry, I have about 200 more images to go before we run out!

  

The Whole World Loves Two-Timing Lovers

At least when they sell papers, that is.

First up:  Nimoy dumps Sandi, from the January 13, 1987 National Enquirer.

Next, from the April 14, 1987 Enquirer, bad news on the Shatner front.

Frankly I am glad to live a boring life with the ONE beautiful person who has agreed to put up with me, to have and to hold.

Why on Earth would ANYBODY risk that!

See you Monday for our final installment of this run of TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!

  

Somebody Else Has STAR TREK MEMORIES!

Here's an article from TV Guide about you-know-who and you-know-what.

This is the teaser from the August 28th issue

This is the story from the September 4, 1993 issue.

And these letters were printed in the September 25 issue.

See you Thursday!

  

Two OKC Papers on STTMP

Both entries were published on the same date, December 21, 1979.

The above is from the Oklahoma City Journal.  Don't forget that the "Batman movies" mentioned is the 1966 theatrical feature based on the 1966 ABC series.  However, the reviewer makes a valid point about the many crises in STTMP resembling TV-show act breaks.

The Tele-Versions column was carried by the Oklahoman.

See you on Monday, Trekkors and Trekettes!

  

Sheesh, Nobody Was Exterminated!

These guys will say ANYTHING to sell papers!

This is from the June 9, 1987 Globe.

Sadly, a reporter can probably find any viewpoint of choice if they ask the right selection of so-called "fans."

See you Thursday.  Hope by then you will have cooled off over this OUTRAGE!

  

Twenty-Five Years Already?!?

It was hard to believe in 1991 that a quarter century had passed since the Star Trek premiere.

This is from the July 2, 1991 National Enquirer.

And this is from the September 8, 1991 Tulsa World.

Wow, it seems like only yesterday!  See you Monday.

  

Four Views of STAR TREK IV

That is, four separate clippings about it.

The above is a review from the November 12, 1986 Oklahoman.  You gotta agree with Tony Frazier that this film really doesn't care about stepping on a few butterflies, as long as the whales get nabbed.

The November 16, 1986 TV Guide previewed a whole week of TREK fun.  You can bet I taped all those features.

Here's an ad from the Dallas Morning News of November 28, 1986.

And their review on the same date.

See you Thursday for more scrapings -- er, clippings!

A New TREK Series? Nah ... Maybe So

Here are three articles from the exciting Fall of 1986.

This first one is from the August 4, 1986 USA TODAY.  Cry, trek fan, cry!  Until ...

This here's from the Norman Transcript.  Guess what?  The Great Bird of the Galaxy will bring Trek back to TV!

Here's a different telling of the same exciting news, from the October 14, 1986 Tulsa World.

Just goes to show you can believe the papers sometimes!  See you Monday.

  

December Snippings!

Yup, it's another month of clippings from my copious STAR TREK scrapbooks.

You might call this snippet "Spock In as a Walk-In."

The clipping is from Starlog, cover-dated April 1982.  You could certainly use this kind of "walk-in" terminology to describe what they did in ST II and III, can't ya?

See you Thursday!

  

Thankful for ... ADVENTURE!

Yup, on this Thanksgiving Day, the Super Blog and the Record Round-Up are helping you be thankful by reminding you of all the thrills that keep yer ole heart pumpin' ...

This project began in the late 1970s when I held the condenser mic of my cassette recorder up to the speaker of our TV and recorded the audio of the opening credits of Jonny Quest and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

Earlier attempts at this grouping were shared as MA-06 - Science Fiction & Fantasy Cassette.

Here's what we got:

01 - Star Wars Suite - John Williams - 1977  (12:39)

02 - The Martian Chronicles Theme - Stanley Myers - 1980  (2:03)

03 - Battlestar Galactica - Erich Kunzel / Cincinnati Pops Orchestra - 1984  (3:26)

04 - The Wild Wild West (4th season edit) - Richard Markowitz - 1968  (1:24)

05 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (edit) - Stu Phillips - 1979  (1:24)

06 - Prelude - Outer Space - The Day the Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrmann - 1951  (1:49)

07 - Doctor Who - Ron Grainer - 1980  (2:43)

08 - Tales of the Gold Monkey - Mike Post & Pete Carpenter - 1982  (1:02)

09 - Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Jerry Goldsmith - arr Fried - 1983  (1:19)

10 - Scarecrow and Mrs King - Arthur B Rubinstein - 1983  (1:16)

11 - Star Trek II and III Suite - James Horner - 1982  (13:44)

12 - Mission Impossible ’88 - Main Title - Lalo Schifrin - 1988  (1:04)

13 - Also Sprach Zarathustra (excerpt) - Richard Strauss - 1968  (1:39)

14 - The Greatest American Hero - Joey Scarsbury - 1981  (1:47)

15 - Themes from ET - Walter Murphy - 1982  (3:53)

16 - Alien - End Titles - Howard Hanson - 1979  (2:50)

17 - Twilight Zone the Movie - Theme and Overture (edit) - Marius Constant and Jerry Goldsmith - 1983  (5:55)

18 - Jonny Quest (edit - no FX) - Hoyt Curtin - 1964  (2:27)

19 - The Flash (no FX) - Danny Elfman - 1990  (1:33)

20 - Star Trek the Motion Picture - Main and End titles (edit) - Jerry Goldsmith - 1979  (3:25)

21 - System 9 - Mark  Alfred - markssuperblog.blogspot.com - 2024  (8:30)

Full Space Ahead, Junior Spacers!

Beside the tracks marked “edit,” the “Star Wars Suite” and “Star Trek II and III Suite” are also blended by me from the soundtrack releases.

The final track, my space de resistance, is a montage of SF excerpts from film and TV from the last seventy-some years.  (A PDF of the sources is enclosed.)  These dialogue excerpts are laid upon a bed of background fx which contains sounds from Star Trek, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Wars, The Jetsons, The Bionic Man, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Space Ghost, and perhaps some others.  Underlaying it all is the haunting sound of NASA’s Voyager Recordings, which may be found here. --- Symphonies of the Planets  -- 

You might say this is my sci-fi answer to the Beatles’ “Revolution 9.”  What do you think?

THIS LINK GOOD FOR THREE DAYS.

PERMANENT LINK.

See you on Monday for month of TREKKING WITH CLIPPINGS!

  

Stuffy Views About LOTR

That's what you're likely to get when such an august organ as The English Journal surveys Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books.

This coverage form the November 1969 issue shows that stuffy academics might be able to cut loose with abandoned appreciation in a bar somewhere, but they must be veddy re-fined in print.

Take a gander and survey this survey.  Was this an attempt through stilted prose to win folks over?  Was it a quest by a hidebound academic to figure out why his shaggy students were reading this work by a philologist?

You have three days to reread the entire trilogy, plus The Hobbit, and report back!  After that, I'll see you Thursday.

  

Old News About Supes

This is from the September 10, 1999 USA Today.

But that wasn't the end of the story.  Good ole Wikipedia has a story which summarizes that DC now owns the rights.

Right or wrong!  (There's a lot of gray areas, not to mention yellow, red, and blue.)

See you on Monday, superguys and supergals!

  

Goin' Wildey!

You would too, if you got to read an interview with Jonny Quest creator Doug Wildey!

Note the implication on the first page's intro that "the age of 63" is a super-antique, geezerish age.

It's either a slip of Wildey's memory or a typo ... but JQ music director was Hoyt Curtin, not "Cartin."

This is from the May 15, 1986 issue of Amazing Heroes, number 95.

See you on Thursday, fellow Questians!